Personally, i very rarely use minnows. Unless bridge fishing at night is usually the exception...nothing wrong with tipping jigs with minnows. I have friends that are successfull with minnows only, no jigs. Everybody has to develop their own style. That is the great thing about fishing, that nothing is absoloute...with the price of minnows today, if you stay several days and buy minnows each day, by the end of the trip. You can have quite an investment just in bait alone. Jigs are not cheap tho, but when i started jig fishing 20 or so years ago. I kept going to the minnow bucket if i didn't get some crappie with jigs. But finally had to leave the minnows at home to gain confidence i needed in jigs... Whatever style you develop and catch fish wil be a confidence booster.